2. Objectives
1. Describe educational theories on
which science teaching is grounded
2. Explain at least three guiding
principles in the teaching of Science
3. Cite the implications of these
educational theories to the teaching
of science
7. Brain Based Learning Theory
1. The Brain is a parallel processor.
2. The search for meaning is innate.
3. The search for meaning occurs
through “patterning”
4. Emotions are critical to patterning
5. Learning is enhanced by a challenge
and inhibited by a threat.
14. TIPS IN THE TEACHING OF SCIENCE
1. Create Positive Atmosphere
2. Develop Mastery and
Understanding of your topic
3. Extend Learning in Real-world
Situations
17. “The important thing about science is NOT to
OBTAIN too much NEW FACTS, but to discover
NEW WAYS of THINKING ABOUT THEM”
~Sir William Bragg
1915 Nobel Prize winner in Physics
18. “If I can bring my students to
see the kind of thing that I see,
then I’ll know they understand
the same science that I do.”
~Sir Paul Groves